The Significance of Social Cognition in Determining Racial Ideology

Anna Robinson — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 15:32:47 +0000

As I read the section entitled “The Birth and Death of Slavery” in Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, the key role social cognition played in creating racial ideologies became abundantly clear. As Alexander explains in her historical analysis of the creation of race in colonial America, a fledgling country had certain capitalist needs for an increase in land and an increase in labor; in order for these ...

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The Significance of Social Cognition in Determining Racial Ideology